Fruit Pudding

Ingredients

• Three cups flour
• two cups raisins, currants, or any kind of fruit
• one cup molasses
• one cup sweet milk
• one cup suet chopped fine
• two teaspoons cream tartar
• one teaspoon soda
• half teaspoon cloves
• two teaspoons cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Bake as you would a cake and steam when used.

2. 2

   It will keep as a fruit cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoon soda, one cup sugar, half cup black molasses. Put bag in hot water, then dip in flour, then pour pudding into bag and boil in hot water for three hours. To be eaten with sauce. This makes enough for seven or eight people. — Mrs. Ross Witherspoon. Christmas Pudding. — Beat well yolks of four eggs, add one teacup melted butter, one teacup molasses, one teaspoonful ginger, three teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one teaspoonful ground cloves, and a little nutmeg. Dissolve in one cup sweet milk one teaspoonful soda and strain into three cups flour, with one teaspoonful cream tartar ; add one cup raisins stoned and chop- ped. Boil three hours in a close covered tin. Serve with hard or liquid sauce. Fruit Pudding. — One cup molasses, one cup milk, half cup butter, one cup chopped raisins, one cup currants, a little cit- ron, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, three cups flour. Let molasses, butter and spices come to a boil on stove, adding other ingredients when cold. Steam four hours. — Mrs. M. L. Madison. Bird Nest Pudding. — Peel and core enough apples to fill pan> stew until nearly done, take off and have a rich custard made up as for egg custard ; pour this over the apples and set in stove until custard is done ; take out and serve cold with whipped cream. Fruit Pudding. — One glass English walnuts, one glass dates, two eggs beaten together, half cup sugar, one tablespoon flour, one teaspoon baking powder ; chop walnuts and dates, mix dates and nuts. Beat eggs well; add sugar, beat well: add nuts HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 179 and dates, baking powder in flour and mix in eggs, etc. Bake in jelly pans. Put paper in bottom of pan and a rack under pan to prevent burning. Bake half hour; break in pieces and serve with cold cream. Fruit Pudding. — Three cups flour, two cups raisins, currants, or any kind of fruit, one cup molasses, one cup sweet milk, one cup suet chopped fine, two teaspoons cream tartar, one tea- spoon soda, half teaspoon cloves, two teaspoons cinnamon

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